"This gun s--- ain't going nowhere," Rock says in the special. "There ain't never gonna be no gun control. You talk about it too long, and you're gonna get shot."

He addresses the pro-gun argument that a knife could do damage as well.

"If 100 people ever got stabbed at the same time, in the same place, by the same person, you know what that would mean?" he asks the audience. "Ninety-seven people deserve to die."

While Rock filmed his special back in November, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, two other mass shootings rattled the US leading up to this show — the Las Vegas shooting in October that left 58 people dead at a concert and the Texas church shooting in November that left 26 dead.

Since the release of the special, viewers on Twitter have commented on the timing:

It speaks to the prevalence of shootings in America that "Tamborine" feels so relevant; Rock also addressed guns in a well-known bit from his stand-up special "Bigger and Blacker" in 1999.

Rock said bullets should cost $5,000 and called it "bullet control."

"People would think before they killed somebody if a bullet cost $5,000," he said.